Whew! What a week! I'm exhausted! I've been running around visiting one customer after another this week and it's only Tuesday! My brain is still a smoldering hole from the craziness of last week's epic SpringOne Platform 2018 event in Washington DC, and needless to say, there's a ton of new things to investigate and tons of videos that will be available soon. This week is a wee bit tamer, so without further ado, let's get to it!

I don't know where you are in the world as you read this, but I hope you'll join me at 17:00 BST for my appearance at the vJUG where I'll be looking at Bootiful Testing — join us!

Spring Fu lead, Sébastien Deleuze, has put together a post illuminating some of the new features in Spring Fu and the brand Spring JaFu configuration style, which brings the originally Kotlin-only functional style to Java developers. I love the possibilities here! Dr. Dave Syer, never one to rest on his proverbial laurels, followed up with a Maven-based example that demonstrates Spring JaFu in action. NB: you'll need to install an artifact in the master snapshots for this to work.